Sea bass with noodle salad
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 2
Ingredients
- 1 shallot, finely sliced
- 1½ tbsp lime juice, plus wedges to serve
- 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- ½ tbsp fish sauce
- 1½ tbsp golden caster sugar
- ½ red bird’s eye chilli, finely sliced
- 100g rice vermicelli noodles
- 2 sea bass fillets
- oil
- 1/4 cucumber, seeded and sliced
- a handful of leaves mint, finely sliced
- a large handful coriander, chopped
Method
- STEP 1
Put the shallots, lime juice, vinegar, fish sauce and caster sugar in a bowl and mix until the sugar dissolves, then add the chilli and leave to macerate.
- STEP 2
Meanwhile, cook the rice noodles, rinse under cold water and drain really well. Brush the skin of the sea bass fillets with oil then grill skin side up for 4-5 minutes.
- STEP 3
Toss the noodles in the shallot mix with the cucumber and herbs, saving some of the herbs for the top. Divide the noodles between 2 plates and put a fish fillet, skin side-up, on top of each with wedges of lime to squeeze over.